Improvement in privies



@duits/I1 %ititzi WILLIAMv JACOB'WARREN, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 109,160,4 dated November 8, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRIVlES.

The Schedule referred to In these Letters Patent and 4making parl: of the same.

I, WILLIAM JACOB WARREN, of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia,l State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Privies, ot' which thefollowing is a specification.

Nature and Object of the I nfvention.

My invention consists of a privy-.well or chamber, communicating with the waste-pipe of a hydrant, or

with other water-pipes, and with a pipe leading to a` sewer, and provided with a valve, as fully described hereafter, so that the lwaste water from the hydrant may bensed to dilute the refuse in the well, and thus prevent the generation of noxious gases, and so that therermay be a free discharge of the contents of the well into the sewer; the main object of my invention being to afford a cheap and cleanly substitute for expensive water-closets.

My invention further consists of an arrangement of pipes, described hereafter, in respect to the said well, whereby the gases generated in the well or in the sewer are prevented from passing to the waste'- plpe.

My invention also consists of a curved pipe, arranged in the well and communicating with the overflow-pipe, so as to prevent the choking of the latter.

The figure in the accompanying drawing represents, insection, my improved privy-well and its adjuncts.

General Description.

A' is a seat, suitably arranged within a privy. or out-house, and provided with a basin, a, and dischargepipe, l).

B is the waste-pipe of a hydrant, situated near the privy, and communicating with a well or chamber, O, with which the pipe b has also a direct communication.

A tube, c, extends from the upper part of the chainber O to the surface of the ground, and is provided with a cap, d,-the said tube inclosing the upper end of a rod, D, secured at its lower end to a valve, f, adapted to the mouth of a pipe, F, leading from the lower part ofthe chamber to an adjacent sewer.

An overflow-pipe, G, forms a communication between the discharge-pipe F and the well, the pipe communicating with the well at such a point that th'e latter can always retain a plentiful supply ot' water.

To prevent the choking-of the pipe G with paper,

85e., floating in the well, I bend it downward therein, as shown at i Ordinary privy-wells of cheap houses have no other Water-closets afford a remedy for this evil, but to houses of the cheaper class, and to dwellings of the poor, water-closets are adjuncts of too expensive a character; and it is for houses of this class that my invention has been more especially designed, although my plan may be adopted in any locality where a supply of water exists, and where a privy free from noxious exhalations is desirable.

The soil is received bythe well or chamber C, which is also a receptacleot the waste water flowing from the hydrant through the pipe B.

The valve f remains closed. rllhe water from the hydrant and washings from the yard and kitchen collect in the well, where the water prevents the exhalation of noxious gases.

Before the contents ot' the chamber become Lfoul the valve f should be raised, when the water will at once rush .through the pipe F, carrying with it the soil and other offensive matter.`

The overflow-pipe G is so situated as to prevent the water from rising too high. in `the well, and the pipe B communicates with the well at such a point that the water therein acts as a trap to prevent the gases in the well or sewer from passing upward through the said pipe.

It will bc seen that my improvement is effectual even'where there is a limited and unfrequent tlow et'y water through the waste-pipe, as, bykeeping the valve fclosed, suh'icient water may be maintained in the well to `dilute its contents, the necessity ot' employing the usual expensive water-closets and the array ot' pipes connected therewith being thus avoided.

It will be apparent that the waste-pipe may coinmunicate with the discharge-pipe of a bath-tub, or ivith a drain-pipe or water-spout.

Ordinary privy-wells and their communications afford lodgments for rats, which, as will be readily observed, cannot avail themselves of the well and pipes describedabove for lodgment-s or communications with the house.

Claims.

'1. 'lhe combination ot the tube b and a receptacle, C, receiving water from a waste-pipe, B, communicating, through a pipe, F, with a sewer, and provided with a valve, f, all substantially as described.

2. The arrangement, substantially asset forth, of the chamber C and pipes B, F, and G.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence ot' two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM JACOB VARREN.

\Vitnesses JN0. B. HARDING, FRANK B. RICHARDS. 

